A few years ago, Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options from companies like AWS and Azure.
Bucha Bull to me.
Something something my cold dead hands
Good luck with that.
Signed,
A person who has recently started pulling all their files from cloud storage like Google Drive and Dropbox
You reminded me. I need to put that new 14TB hard drive to good use and close my other accounts.
Yeah, I’ve not used Google Drive or Dropbox in years but have just let my data sit on their servers.
Now that all these companies want to scrape our files for AI bullshit it felt like a good time to remove it all.
Yeah bud, maybe if you get just a little more money, you’ll finally be complete. Just a little more money…
I think we’ve mostly done that already. Pretty much everything we use runs in “the cloud” and most things we use locally don’t require any compute power. Pretty much all you need is a bit of RAM to run the browser.
Problem is if you want solid build quality and a nice keyboard and trackpad, etc. you can’t get that without a PC with a $1000 processor shoehorned into it.
“Hopes”, more like will be doing a bunch of anti-competitive bullshit to ensure that this is your only option.
Make no mistake, the oligarchs see the personal computer as a 40-year-old experiment that has failed, or needs to fail. They want their mainframes and CPU/hr billing back. Server hosting for enterprise uses has already gone this way for the most part. Small consumers are next.
I demand you give me control of your entire life, you can trust me.
IMHO this is no different than Neuralink. My computers do a great deal of my thinking for me. That’s why FOSS is so important.
Nothing is ever enough for these greedy fucks
They have OCD that manifests as economic hoarding. They are mentally ill, and are damaging society worse than any mass shooter. They need to be separated from society, forced to undergo mental health treatment, and their fortunes confiscated.
Yeah, we get it, Bezos. You want us to shove more and more money down your throat.
Reading the article, the analogy with an own generator and the power grid kind of makes sense at first… until you also make an analogy with broadcast and cable TV for example - you don’t get to choose what’s on, and in the latter case you’re practically paying for ads and some programming in between. So… how about no.
My fear is that those shortages (artificial or not) might at one point really drive us in a different direction. My only option for now is to vote with my wallet and use my stuff for as long as practically feasible.
Sometimes renting from the cloud is a perfectly acceptable solution. However companies leap to using AWS and similar cloud solutions WAY more than necessary or advisable. It is easy to rack up thousands in bills outstripping the costs of buying some hardware and slapping the software onto it. The cloud can scale and do a bunch of cool things but much of the time companies don’t need it, or the complexity it brings. There is also the small matter of data sovereignty - if I were a company using the cloud I would be extremely wary of one which is operating outside of my legal jurisdiction and for governments it just a flat out bad idea.
When AWS had the major outage recently, my self-hosted services kept on running. The programs on my Linux machines and other devices I own were also not impacted. Thanks, Jeff, but I’ll stick with my “antiques”. Also, fuck you.
Yep, I’ve had one power supply fail in like 15 years. That and power outages was it for downtime on my own equipment. Can’t say that about other services I’ve used.
Friends of mine complained they couldn’t watch stuff and I replied “huh, my Plex is working fine.”
Unsurprising that capitalists want to seize all the means of computation for themselves.
Fuck you Jeff.
lol, no.
Fuck that shit. Switch to Linux.
